AshuraDX

okay then , time to tackle dat creeper once more

so I'm done with reweighting the torso

and I've been experimenting with some shader stuff :

I tried to utilize my "fake-bloom" shader here which went terribly wrong

it's basically a slightly altered glowy specular shader

I thought I'd try applieing it without altering the specular texture

and well it came out very f*cked up.....

just tested the max 6 plugin :

worked great for me me , I successfully exported v2 of my doviculus model using your exporter

and I didn't encounter any issues yet but I doubt there are any as the model looks allright in modview

is it capable of exporting animations yet ? If so I'll test that aswell

looks a little..... fat o.o

sorta reminds me of

but that might be the flat textures

finished the staff , and i'm absolutely gonig to reweight him as I keep noticing more and more flaws....

so I got a first uipdate to announce for v2 :

I went ahead and fixed those REALLY visible seams at the shoulders and at his back , dunno yet if I'll bother with fixing the bottom side of his arms

I'm also thinking of reweighting his Torso to fix a strange deformation at his shoulders

EDIT :

also

for sonuds check this site out :

http://www.freesound.org/

you could probably mix some animal sonuds to create own sounds for your colo

looks a lot better ! , now reposition that tongue it's still comnig out of his throat

cut it , and reposition it 2 quads down

yep it's a sideways eel exactly

but you modeled a snake well atleast for the first half of your colo

his "butt-fin" is spot on I guess

EDIT :

got something for ya

http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/d/d9/Infantcolo.jpg

that's a young colo so simply model that body and then stretch it out

oh your current attempt is an improvement ,yep

needs to be flatter , the head is way to tall atm , move the tongue down

it's sticking right out of it's throat right now so move ti down , and a little more forward

also get rid of that arc in the upper jaw , that doesn't match the reference at all

oh I keep forgetting things :

the whole body needs to be flattened it's not a snake it's some sort of eel

but unlike most eel the colo clawfish has its fins at the sides of his body sorta like a flounder

keep an eye at the reference pictures mate

you often get stuff wrong jsut because you're to lazy to pay attention to the reference

Not to bad chalk , but make sure to work at the shape of his jaws

take a look at Crocodile jaws , from what I see they're quite similiar , probably crocodiles were the inspiration for this design

Edit : yep

read this http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Colo_claw_fish

Edit 2 :

Maybe I could make a bongo model for your map incase you're interested but I dont know how long that'll take

Nobody even takes requests anymore. It's kind of disappointing. Look at how many unfulfilled requests are in this forum.

 

If I could model I would do it. I try to help people with requests as best as I can.

I try to fullfill requests if possible but I allready got so many models to finish , especially Omegasigmas Death Egg Robot...

or texturing kain for Mini

nope , it only resets your selection , look for reset vertices under the rollout advanced parameters

Well I've allways been using yahoo and i'm to lazy to swap all accounts to another e-mail

oh and btw long time no see @@NAB622 wecome back mate !

@@Psyk0Sith

Azatha allready fiddled with the Abs.Effect on those verts and apearently it didnt help

so my suggestion would be to select the entire hand and hit the reset button to reset their weights to default

I usually weight the hands vertex by vertex , rather than using the envelopes
I assume you use 3ds max , so check this out :

Submitted Doviculus

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35503378/Doviculus_screenshots.zip

for anybody who's interested

still gotta add sounds and he's ready for release

so I'd call this done

time to create NPC files , bot files and shaders

probably I'll quickly model his staff aswell....

about to call this done , still gotta work at the hands and rings at his back

experimenting with filters at the finished frontside of the torso

and there's no NPC Class that wont drown underwater

Awesome !

Finally , I've been waiting for this since I started to experiment with shaders in JA !

Last Update for today :

texturing his skin will be a damn pain in the ass ....

Hey duds'gals , now that the JA source code is released : wouldn't it be possible to update modview to show the effects of shaders ?

I've allways been missing the ability to see my shaders on the model before  starting the game